Posts Tagged ‘news’
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
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The news, eh? What is it? Where do I find it? What do I do once I’ve caught it? Is it contagious? Already 2011 has been awful full of news, and with human-produced news levels at their highest point in recorded history, what can be done to prepare for the eventual catastrophe which everyone is certain is coming from somewhere soon?
Tags: 9 day fortnight , ACT , Annette King , Arizona , Auckland , Baltimore , beneficiaries , beneficiary bashing , Century City Apartments , Charlie Brooker , Chris Finlayson , Coromandel , Cost of living , cycleway , David Letterman , Dr Russel Norman , economics , election promises , foreign affairs , girlfriends , Grant Robertson , Green Party , GST , guns , holidays , immigration , Iraq War , John Key , John McCain , Korea , Labour Party , Lord of the Rings , media , mediawatch , MMP , music , National Party , national standards , news , Newtown , Phil Goff , Pike River Mining Disaster , police , politics , prisoners' right to vote , property , public sector , public service , Queensland , Queensland floods , Recession , Rob Muldoon , Rodney Hide , Rongotai , south island , statistics , Steven Franks , Supercity , supply-side economics , tax , tax cuts , tea party movement , The Wire (TV show) , Thorndon , trickle-down economics , twitter , unemployment , united fut , United Future , welfare , Wellington , Wellington Central electorate , west coast
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
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Back in August Paula Rebstock, a former commerce commission head and therefore the most appropriate person to make these sorts of life-and-death decisions, released her welfare working group’s issue paper which set us off like a firecracker in episode 50 (highlight here ). Rebstock is back this week, with her group’s recommendation s. Claiming our economy cannot support our society, she makes the dual mistake of forgetting that it’s our society that should come before our economy in that sentence, and that economies do tend to behave rather catastrophically when you base them on bullshit figures .
Tags: 1990s , 2025 Commission , 9 day fortnight , ACC , ACT , Asperger syndrome , asset sales , beer , beneficiaries , beneficiary bashing , Bill English , Britain , cats , Chris Carter , Christianity , Civil Defence , cocaine , commodities , conservatives , corporate responsibility , crime , cycleway , Dancing with the Stars , David Cunliffe , David Garrett , death , disease , divorce , doctors , Don Brash , DPB , earthquakes , economics , education , Foreshore and Seabed , Glen Beck , global economic downturn , health and safety , healthcare reform , invalid/sickness benefit , Ireland , Irish , Jackson James Wood , John Boscawen , John Key , Labour Party , Labour Party UK , looting , Mana by-election , media , Michael Cullen , mining , national debt , National Party , Navy , news , NHS , Opshop , Parliament TV , Paula Bennet , Paula Rebstock , Pike River Mining Disaster , privatisation , Pundit.co.nz , racism , Richard Prebble , Rodney Hide , sex , sick leave , Sinead O'Connor , sleeptalking , solo parenting , Standard and Poors , Sue Bradford , survival kit , Tau Henare , tax , tax cuts , teachers , Terry Serepisos , tertiary education , The Economist , The Standard , The West Wing , Tony Blair , Trevor Mallard , U2 , unemployment , universal minimum income , upper class , wealthy people , weight , welfare , welfare dependency , Welfare Working Group , Wellington , White Ribbon campaign , yachting
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
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SPORTS! The Delhi Commonwealth Games is upon us and it’s covered in shit . How will our athletes fare in the scatological fallout as John Key dares them all to a game of ‘poo chicken’? In that vein we delve back into other shitty sporting events like the Montreal Olympics where New Zealand pissed off all of Africa, the 81 Tour that John Key doesn’t remember, and celebrate the legacy of Eddie the Eagle :
Tags: 1981 Tour , 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks , Africa , All Whites , athletics , Auckland , Australia , Australian Institute of Sport , beaurocracy , Bhopal , bribery , Britain , bus , busses , Canada , capitalism , colonialism , Commonwealth Games , communism , construction industry , Cool Runnings , corruption , crime , Dave Currie , David Garrett , Delhi , East India Company , Eastern Bloc , Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards , Edinburgh , elderly , faeces , famine , film , food , Football World Cup , France , gangs , Garth McVicar , genitals , Germany , Gleneagles Agreement , hide the poo , high school , Hunterville , India , indian food , Inner Circle , internet , Iran , Islam , Israel , John Candy , John Key , Korea , libraries , London , London Olympics 2012 , Manners Mall , margarine , Michael King , Montreal , Moscow , Munich , nerds , New Zealand military , news , Olympic Games , oral sex , Paris , parties , poos , Prussia , racism , Resource Management Act , Rob Muldoon , robbery , Robert Mugabe , Rugby World Cup , Russia , Scotland , Seoul , sexual assault , skiing , South America , Sport , sporting bans , Stephen Wilce , stuff.co.nz , tennis , terrorism , The Human Centipede , toothbrushes , Vichy France , vuvuzelas , Winter Olympics , Zimbabwe
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
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The Christchurch Earthquake is serious business and has had a huge impact on the lives of the residents, BUT: as with any news event there are peripheral political, financial and media fuck-ups that make up the bread and butter of this podcast. So, with our full sympathies going out to the victims of this horrible event, let’s commence with the piss-taking…
Tags: banks , beer , Bob Parker , Boobquake , Canterbury Draft , cars , Christchurch , Christchurch Earthquake , CNN , Coastal Coalition , conspiracy theory , construction industry , Courtenay Place , crime , currency conversion , dairy , death , domestic violence , Dr Muriel Newman , earthquakes , Earthquare Commission , farming , FEMA , finance , finance companies , Fletcher Challenge , Fox Glacier , Gerry Brownlee , HAARP , Haiti , Helen Clark , Hiroshima , Hurricane Katrina , insurance , Iran , John Key , Lambton Quay , lemurs , liberterianism , Liberterianz (political party) , looting , mayors , mediawatch , mental illness , Merryl Lynch , New Orleans , New Zeal (blog) , news , nuclear weapons , Obama , Oranga Park , Paris Hilton , Phil Goff , plane crashes , police , politics , poor people , prostitutes , prostitution , racism , reclaimed land , reptilians , Roger Douglas , Rudy Giuliani , shipping , Shortland Street , small business , South Cantebury Finance , stock market , stuff.co.nz , talkback radio , tax , The Gathering , Timaru , Trevor Loudon , twitter , underage drinking , Wellington , YouTube
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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Corporate crime, personalised plates, stolen cars, the Auckland Crime Highway, and Dave’s attempts to learn to drive. We’re having a CAR EPISODE! toot toot.
Tags: ACC , Alan Hubbard , ANC , aryans , Asians , Auckland , audio , beer , Bently , Black Sabbath , Bochum , boy racers , Bridgecorp , Britain , Bruce Judge , car theft , cars , Christchurch , climate change , condoms , corporate crime , crime , Czechoslovakia , David Slack , Deborah Coddington , donk , Dr Muriel Newman , drinking , driving , drug dealers , drugs , elderly , Europe , farming , finance , finance companies , Ford , France , fraud , genocide , Germany , Gerry Brownlee , girlfriends , goths , government spending , Helensville , history , Holden , Honda , insurance , Japan , Jeremy Clarkson , Jethro Tull , Jews , John Boscawen , John Key , journalism , Judge Corp , Judith Collins , Judith Tizzard , Kmart , language , Led Zeppelin , Maori , masturbation , Melissa Lee , Metal , Michael Cullen , middle ages , morals , murder , music festivals , Nazis , neo-nazis , New Zealand Jewish Council , news , Nick Smith , Nissan , p , personalised plates , pizza , Plato , poetry , ponzi schemes , protests , Publicaddress.net , puns , racism , Rainbow's End , Reuters , Russia , sadism , sarcasm , Schindler's List , science , second hand cars , Serious Fraud Office , sexism , skinheads , South Africa , South Auckland , South Cantebury Finance , stuff.co.nz , Subaru , tampons , TradeMe.co.nz , TV , Upper Hutt , usury , Uwe Boll , Waitaki river , weed , Wellington , wikipedea , wine , World War II , youth , YouTube
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
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Hahaha, we just totally talk about pizza for like the entire time. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, we do get around to talking about real stuff: The pathology of the right wing, the crimes of Labour governments past, morality, tea and , of course, coffee.
This was recorded before the Chris Carter debacle. The next episode is going to be all over that.
Tags: 'Look! Economics is all around you!' -book , all-you-can-eat , America , Athiesm , Australia , beneficiary bashing , Big Kumura , blackmail , BP , buffets , Burger King , Chicago , Christianity , coffee , competitive eating , conservatism , conservatives , crime , Destiny Church , Dominos Pizza , Don Brash , donk , Dr Who , drinking , Dublin , economics , email , empathy , envy , evangalism , exclusive bretheren , facebook , facism , fast food , fish 'n' chips , food , Fox News , friendship , genocide , god , health , Helen Clark , Hell Pizza , homosexuality , humanitarianism , jealousy , John Key , Julia Gillard , junk food , Labour Party , Labour Party Australia , liberals , London , mental illness , milk , misery , National Party , New York , news , nightlife , Noodle Canteen , noodles , oil spill , Paraparaumu , parties , passive aggresiveness , Patriot Act , Paula Bennett , pity , pizza , Pizza Hut , political correctness , privatisation , quiche , racism , Religion , religious extremism , retirement homes , right wing , Rogernomics , Ronald Reagan , Rotorua , Ruth Richardson , Ruthanasia , Sbarro , self-help , seminars , soda , supermarkets , tea , Terrorism Supression Act , The Room , The Simpsons , TPF Group , welfare , Wellington
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
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In this episode we talk about K-Strass, a purported Yo-yo expert who has been pranking local news shows in America with is yo yo “act”. Also, the UK election results are in, Paula Bennett’s an idiot, and Dave unveils his own new single-issue, special interest political party, the CAIP.
Tags: 1980s , 1981 Tour , ads , Afghanistan , alcohol , Aldous Huxley , Altern-8 , American politics , Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis party , archeology , Auckland , Bill Clinton , Bill O'Reilly , blogs , Bob Jones , Branch Davidians , Britain , Bro' Town , California , Cambodia , capitalism , Catherine Delahunty , child abuse , Christchurch , Christianity , Christine Rankin , class , colonialism , comedians , comedy , communism , conscription , Conservative Party UK , conspiracy theory , corruption , Crazy Frog , Cybenetic Assisted Immortality Party , dance music , David Icke , democracy , Democratic Party , DPB , drinking age , drugs , drunk driving , ecstasy , education , elderly , Essex , facism , facists , Fat Freddy's Drop , Fox News , FPP , fraternities , general election , George Bush snr , George W Bush , George Washington , girls , Glen Beck , government spending , Greece , Green Party , guns , Highlander , history , immigrants , immigration , immortality , infomercials , internet , internet advertising , Japan , Jenny Shipley , Jews , John Key , John McCain , journalism , Judith Collins , K-Strass , KGB , Kyle Chapman , LA riots , Labour Party , language , Liberal Democrats UK , lizard people , Louis XIV , Maori , marijuana , Masterton , McGillicuddy Serious Party , mental illness , methamphetamine , Michael Appleby , military , MMP , Molotov Mitchell , Montana , morning television , mortality , motivational speaking , Mr Excuse Me/Geoff The Maori , music , My Chemical Romance , NAMBLA , Nandor Tanczos , National Front , National Party , National Radio , Nazis , Netherlands , New Zealand First , news , Nick Clegg , NORML , Obama , Oliver Driver , Otago , Paul Henry , Paula Bennett , pedophiles , pedophillia , Peter Dunne , poi , police , poos , Professor Peter Saunders - Centre for Independent Studies , Professor Peter Saunders - University of New South Wales , prostitution , protests , punk , Punkfest , R.E.M. , racism , rap , rave , Religion , religious extremism , Republican party , retards , retro , Sarah Palin , School of Hard Knocks , science , Scottish National Party , Sega , seperatism , September 10 , sex , single-issue parties , Skulls and Bones , Steven Joyce , Superman , tax , Te Urewera National Park , tea party movement , technology , tertiary education , texting , The Apprentice NZ , The Bible , The Economist , The Electoral College , The KLF , the society paged , The Sopranos , The Sun (newspaper) , The Wellingtonian , time travel , Timothy McVeigh , Tory Horse , Treaty of Waitangi , Treaty Settlements , Tuhoe , Turkey , TV , TV3 , TVNZ , twitter , UK election , United Future , USA deficit , Waco , Wanganui , war , Washington DC , welfare , Wellington , white supremacists , wine , Winston Peters , WINZ , Wolverines , women , WorldNetDaily , yo-yo
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
To the mailbag! In this episode we take a look at some stories that have been emailed to us, and then settle down on a nice long rant about the music industry.
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Tags: ACT , ACTA , alcohol , America , anto-smacking , Aqua , ASBOs , BBC , Beck , blogs , blues , Bone Thugs-n-Harmony , Britain , Christianity , Collective Soul , Conservative Party UK , country music , Crazy Frog , Creed , crime , CSI , David Cameron , Declaration of Rights for Indigenous People , Detroit , Eiffel 65 , email , Eton , Fleetwood Mac , FPP , g-strings , Gang Starr , George Michael , Glee , Google , grammar , Guru , Hamilton , high school , hip hop , Insane Clown Posse , internet , jazz , Jesus and Mary Chain , Labour Party , Labour Party UK , law , lawyers , Liberal Democrats UK , listener complaints , listener feedback , Maori Party , Massive Attack , merchandise , Metal , Metallica , Michael Jackson , Michigan , Mike Moore , MMP , Mr Blobby , MTV , music , music industry , music press , National Party , NBR , Nelly , New Zealand First , news , Oasis , organised crime , Paul Mccartney , Peter Gabriel , Phil Collins , Phil Goff , piracy , police , pop , Presidents of the United States of America (band) , prisons , profanity , prohibition , Rage Against The Machine , rap , Revenge of the Nerds , Rogernomics , Rolling Stone , Ronan Keating , Ruth Richardson , Ruthanasia , Satellite High , sexual assault , Simon Barnett , Sony , Supergroove , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , tshirts , TVNZ , U2 , UK election , underwear , Westlife , Wham! , Winston Peters
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
In this episode Dave gets really angry about the Iraq war, and we forget to be funny.
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This is the continuation of our discussion around the Wikileaks video that’s (kinda) been in the news recently. For more info see Collateral Murder .
Tags: 1960s , 1970s , 1980s , 2 Step , 3 Strikes , 7/7 , 9/11 , abortion , Abu Graib , ACT , adultery , Afghanistan , Afghanistan War , Al Qaeda , Alexander Lebedev , Algeria , alzheimer's , American politics , AOL , April fools , ASBOs , Australia , Ayatollah Khomeini , Baath party , Blur , Borat , Britain , Cambodia , capitalism , Catholicism , Central America , Chechnya , Christian Democrats , CIA , class , CNN , Coalition of the Willing , cocaine , Cold War , Colonel Gadaffi , colonialism , communism , Conservative Party UK , conspiracy theory , consumer capitalism , Dancing with the Stars , David Cameron , David Lange , David Letterman , dementia , democracy , Dick Cheney , digital media , disco , Dominion Post , Don Brash , Donald Rumsfeld , Dr Who , drugs , Eastern Bloc , economics , economies of scale , energy , environmentalism , equestrian , equity , Falkland Islands , Flight of the Conchords , Fox News , France , freedom , GCSB , George Bush snr , George W Bush , Georgia , Germany , golf , gone by lunchtime , Gordon Brown , Green Party , Grime , Gulf War , Haliburton , Hamid Karzai , Helen Clark , heroism , high school , hippies , history , homosexuality , http://collateralmurder.com/ , humanitarianism , In The Loop , India , insurgency , intelligence , iPad , IRA , Iran , Iran-Iraq war , Iraq , Iraq War , Islam , islamic extremism , Israel , Jason Gunn , Jesus Jones , John Key , journalism , Kazakhstan , KGB , Korea , Korean War , labour movement , Labour Party , Labour Party UK , Lady Sovereign , Laos , leaks , Lebanon , Lethal Weapon II , Libya , Margaret Thatcher , Mark Todd , media , Middle East , miscarraige of justice , Mission Acomplished , morality , Moscow , Mujahideen , My Lai , national identity , National Party , natural gas , neutrality , new media , news , Noel Gallagher , Northern Ireland , nuclear free NZ , nuclear weapons , Oasis , oil , oil prices , Oliver Stone , opposites , Osama Bin Laden , Outdoor Recreation New Zealand , Oxford , Palestine , peace , Peter Dunne , Phil Goff , privatisation , protestants , quaaludes , Religion , religious extremism , Republican party , resources , Reuters , Richard Prebble , Right Here Right Now , Robert Fisk , Roger Douglas , Ronald Reagan , Rugby World Cup , Russia , Saddam Hussein , Saudi Arabia , shock and awe , Simon Barnett , socialism , South America , Spain , Spanish Civil War , Speed Garage , Split Enz , spy bases , Sri Lanka , suicide bombing , Syria , Tamil Tigers , Tariana Turia , terrorism , the EU , The Guardian , The Independent , The Mafia , The Ploughshares , The Room , The Warehouse , Tiger Woods , titles , Tommy Wiseau , Tonga , Tony Blair , Uday Hussain , UK election , unions , United Future , Unocal , upper class , USSR , Vietcong , Vietnam , Waihopai , Wal-Mart , war , war journalism , Wikileaks , Winston Churchill , workers' rights , World War I , World War II , Xbox , Zack de la Rocha
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Today’s episode sees us take on Catholicism, and as of the time of posting this nobody involved with the Egonomist has been struck down by god. Well, Dave’s off the the doc today with a dodge tummy but that hardly counts.
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Further reading on one of this episode’s topics:http://collateralmurder.com/
Tags: 700 club , 9/11 , abortion , act of god , adult classifieds , Afghanistan , Africa , AIDs , amyl nitrate , Anglicanism , anglicans , Archbishop of Canterbury , baptism , belief , Beverly Hills 90210 , bigotry , books , Brian Tamiki , Britain , Cambodia , catholic school , Catholicism , catholics , celibacy , Central America , charity , Charles Darwin , child abuse , childhood , China , Chinese food , Christianity , colonialism , communism , Concordat of 1933 , condoms , conspiracy theory , Constantinople , contraception , Corporal Willie Apiata , crucifixion , Cuba , culture , Dan Brown , darwinism , death , democracy , Destiny Church , development , disease , Dominion Post , Easter , economics , El Salvador , encryption , eroticism , eugenics , Europe , facebook , faith , fan-fic , Father Bob Maguire , Fonterra , Fred Phelps , Friedrich Nietzsche , funerals , gay rights , gays , girls , god , Good Friday , good looks , goths , guilt , heaven , hell , hierarchy , high fives , history , Hitler , holidays , homosexuality , http://collateralmurder.com/ , Iceland , Illuminati , industrial revolution , iPad , Iraq War , Islam , islamic extremism , Israel , Japan , Jerry Falwell , Jesus , Jesus Camp , Jews , journalism , Judaism , Kabul , Kings of Leon , Laos , latin , Lenin , lifestyle , marriage , masterbation , Megan Phelps , Melbourne , Michelangelo , Middle East , Mike Moore , missionaries , morals , mortality , Most Reverend Rowan Williams , Nazis , New York , news , Norse mythology , Nothern Ireland , oral sex , Origin of Species , pagans , Palestine , papal election , Pat Robertson , pedophiles , pedophillia , Phil Goff , philosophy , Poland , poor people , Pope Benedict XVI , Pope John Paul II , Pope Julius II , Pope Pius XI , popes , Presbyterianism , protestants , Pulp Fiction , rapists , Ray Comfort , Religion , Reuters , Rome , Ronald Reagan , school , science , Scotland , secrecy , SETI@home , South America , Stalin , Star Wars , steam engine , Stephenie Meyer , stuff.co.nz , Ted Haggard , Telecom , terrorism , the DaVinci Code , The Herald , Third World , Tiger Woods , Twilight saga , twitter , United Fruit Company , USSR , Vatican II , Venn diagrams , Vietcong , Vietnam , Vodafone , war , war journalism , wealthy people , Westboro Baptist Church , Wikileaks , wine , World War II , XT
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